This is a global player original podcast.

Welcome to Dirty Motherpucker.

This is your Quicky, your podcasting bit on the side with me, Anna Whitehouse and Polly Hazelwood, my best met.

Oi, oy.

You've got to come up with a new noise.

I know. I just, I think that's all I've got in the bank.

So a lot of you've been in touch after speaking, well, when we spoke to Natasha Devon,

about toxic friendships, about what hashtag women supporting women actually means.

And there was a lot of discussion around the toxicity of female friendships.

And Natasha made it very, very clear, and we feel the same, that we need to shine a light on the

good as well as the bad and the ugly. So this episode is exclusively dedicated to your stories and they are so beautiful. We decided to

focus on the kindness of strangers because I think in a world that's really driven by media

wanting to highlight the bad and I understand climate change. I understand the way of the world, the state of the world.

But actually, can we maybe like polyfiller, fill in some of the cracks with the goodness of humanity?

Because there's so much of it out there.

And I'm going to start with Jesse Stain's story. This was her first story, hashtag kindness of strangers.

Last weekend, I was admitted to hospital with an ectopic pregnancy. I've had three miscarriages and two

ectopics. Life is effing shit sometimes. There was a very distressed lady opposite me in the ward.

I could tell her heart was breaking and I know what that feels like. She was wailing like a mother

who'd lost a child and it turned out that she truly thought she had lost her children.

She was a refugee from Syria. She spoke little English and because she was in

hospital, her kids had been taken into temporary care. She didn't understand that she would get them

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